Ever wonder which voice assistant knows your weather the best? For the past couple of months, I’ve been testing out the big three — Amazon’s Alexa Plus, Google Gemini for Home (which is busy replacing Google Assistant) and Apple’s Siri AI — to see who gets the weather right most often. They all pull their
Donald Trump’s dinner with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, on Thursday was a glitzy gathering of the biggest names in tech. AMD CEO Lisa Su said during a fireside chat at the New York Stock Exchange that she will be attending Thursday’s White House event, joining executives expected to include Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, OpenAI’s Sam Altman,
Four years ago, Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee was celebrating his narrow victory in the Democratic primary surrounded by supporters, when someone handed him phone — it was his opponent simply calling to concede. “That’s not going to happen,” he said, waving the phone away. “Hang up on them.” Now, the woman he dismissed, Helena Foulkes,
At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, the conversation among investors, founders, and operators from across Europe wasn’t just about what to build with AI, but who should control it. No matter where you were during the annual Nordic conference, from onstage to cocktail hours and after-parties, the chatter kept coming back to how Europe can gain more
The debate over artificial intelligence and monetary policy is already well under way. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh and others have rightly emphasized that AI could raise productivity and productive capacity even as the investment boom puts pressure on resources before those benefits arrive. That timing problem is real. But it risks obscuring a more
A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation about who actually built it. The free model was released on OpenRouter on Thursday, where it was described as “a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workload.” On X, Stripe CEO
